44 public figures the channel mentions expressively enough to have an opinion about. Only counting direct, unambiguous praise or attack of a specific named person — neutral news mentions don't count. The roster is auto-detected from the corpus itself (name frequency analysis), not predefined; the tone of 458 posts was scored by 10 independent classification passes.
The classifier scores the tone of a post, but doesn't always tell the channel's own voice apart from a quoted opinion inside the post — at this sample size a few such errors happen; they don't change the overall picture. This is a barometer of expressiveness, not a poll: a person with 0 attacks may simply have come up in sharp contexts less often.